14 research outputs found
Vacant residential buildings as potential reserves: a geographical and statistical study
AuditoryâPerceptual Assessment of Fluency in Typical and Neurologically Disordered Speech
Current Clinical Practices in Aphasia Therapy in Finland: Challenges in Moving towards National Best Practice
Twitching Laborious Play or : How Game-Streaming Changes Modes of Playing
The twitch gaming event is a multifaceted and multilayered participatory act, linking economic interests of platform owners, game industry and gamers with modes of playing games â a development that engenders gaming â especially twitch gaming â as a new form of âworkâ. In this paper, we will make an effort to develop a frame by which the interconnections between actors like media specific aspects of live-streaming, the aesthetic of performing â such as âself-portrayalâ and maintaining a âscreen personaâ by the streamers â,mediatechnical equipment as well as social interactions with the audience and, last but not least, economic interests become entangled to produce what we call a âlive-streamed gaming event (Giddings 2008)â or, to put it simple, twitch.publishe